Three Water and Sanitation Projects in India Win Online Search (1/2)

A billion people live without a safe water supply. Two and a half billion, or more than forty percent of all people, have no place to use a safe toilet. Recently on the Internet there was a competition to look for creative local solutions to water and sanitation" class="hjdict" word="sanitation" target=_blank>sanitation needs.

Two organizations, Ashoka's Changemakers and Global Water Challenge, organized the worldwide search. Global Water Challenge is a coalition of twenty-two groups working for change in water and sanitation.

Ashoka is a group for social entrepreneurs, people who look for creative solutions to social problems. Its Changemakers.net Web site is an online community where competitions are held. Anyone can vote or provide ideas and resources.

The search for water and sanitation projects received more than two hundred fifty proposals from fifty-four countries. Judges chose nine finalists in April. Then, visitors to the site voted for three winners. All three are from India. Each will receive five thousand dollars from Global Water Challenge.

Himanshu Parikh Consulting Engineers won for a sanitation project called Slum Networking. It involves looking for natural solutions like gravity-based, house-to-house water and sanitation connections in poor areas.

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十亿人无安全饮水供应。二十五亿，或者说超过总人口40%的人没有安全的厕所可以使用。最近，网上开展了一个寻求本地解决水供应和卫生需求方案的创意竞赛。

阿育王（Ashoka）的 Changemakers计划与全球应对水问题促进会组织了这次全球搜索。全球应对水问题促进会是由22个小组组成,致力于改变水和卫生设施。

阿育王是为社会企业家成立的组织，他们为社会问题寻求创意性解决方案。该组织的changemarkers.net网站是一个举行竞争性项目的在线社区。任何人可以投票或者提供创意和资源。

寻求饮水和卫生设施的项目收到来自54个国家超过250份建议。四月时，选出最终的九份建议。然后，网站访问者选出了三名获胜者。三位获胜者均来自印度。每位获胜者可以从全球应对水问题促进会获得5000美元的奖励。

咨询工程师希曼舒·帕里克以名为"贫民区网络"的卫生设施项目获胜。该项目寻求天然解决方案，例如，在贫民区实施以万有引力为基础的屋对屋的饮水与卫生设施结合项目。

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